I’ve learned it’s shocking what otherwise good people will do when they’re permitted.
If treated specially, if the rules get bent for them, if society tolerates it—or better yet, champions it—a people will do devilish things in their own interest.
…and at the expense of others.
Only 3% of individuals detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the first 14 months of the second Trump administration had a violent felony conviction, according to an ABC News analysis of government data. abcnews.link/PbkSs1W
Videos showing Europeans fall in love with America is the best—and most enjoyable—evidence that American liberals have been lying about America all along
London — Muslim public workers paid by taxpayers for @harrow_council make violent threats to severely injure a man. They turn off their body cameras as they make the threats & say they can leverage their relationship with @metpoliceuk to injure him.
Collin County, Texas (June 5) — Outside the m—rder trial for Karmelo Anthony, a woman says she will stand by Anthony regardless of the evidence because of racial affinity and solidarity.
Ugh…it’s a show.
Even their most important personal moment—their wedding—is a show.
Every aspect of life meant to maximize public attention.
Narcissism…it ain’t just a river in Egypt.
The Justice Department has sent a prosecutor to observe Los Angeles ballot counting amid President Trump's baseless claims of Democratic "cheating." cnn.it/3SoX97x
The media frames these rulings not as “legal” or “illegal.” Not as “constitutional” or “unconstitutional” regarding the state’s laws.
But instead they frame them as “GOP-friendly” and “anti-Democratic Party.”
That’s their game.
Once you see it, you can never unsee it.
The Supreme Court allows Alabama to use a GOP-friendly congressional map for the midterm elections in November, cutting a seat held by Black Democrat: cnn.it/4fFZbtV
It seems like, if the Feds scanned the computers of every prominent trans activist…99% of them would have child p**n on it.
…the remaining 1% would have just wiped their hard drives.
The Nowak case clearly highlights that we need to stop treating racism as an ~infinite evil, not because Nowak was racist (no evidence of this) but because any time you create a social superweapon like accusations of racism are now, it’ll be misused horribly.
What is racism? Ask 10 people and you’ll get 12 opinions. Historically, it meant someone who treats people badly in interpersonal interactions because of their race. Which is just, like, kinda annoying and slightly boorish. It’s not the apocalypse. There are many personal traits that are equally or more annoying.
Now the definition has been ludicrously expanded to include a bunch of things even less objectionable than that, including belief in very plausible scientific claims and policy preferences that were near-universal for almost all of human history.
Racism just isn’t a big deal. We have to take it off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, it would morally change exactly nothing about the horror of what happened to him. He didn’t, but I feel over-focusing on that distracts from the fact that it wouldn’t matter if he had.
Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares.